Melaka Election: Turnout at 70.59% as Polls Close, SPR Dashboard Shows

MELAKA, November 14, 2026 – Turnout among ordinary voters in the 16th Melaka state election stood at 70.59 per cent when polls closed, according to the Election Commission’s (Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya, SPR) official real-time voter turnout dashboard.

The dashboard showed 472,403 of the 669,211 ordinary voters had cast their ballots when it was checked at 7.19pm, with its figures last updated at 7pm. Including early voters, it showed 481,820 of 687,697 registered voters had voted, or 70.06 per cent. The SPR had not yet announced an official final turnout figure at the time of writing.

The close-of-polls reading is above the 70 per cent target set by the commission, which ordinary-voter turnout first passed in the SPR’s 5pm update of 70.10 per cent, or 469,139 voters. According to the dashboard, only about 3,300 more ordinary voters cast their ballots after that update, before polling ended at 6pm.

Among the 28 state seats, the dashboard showed the highest ordinary-voter turnout in Serkam (N.26) at 79.75 per cent, followed by Ayer Molek (N.18) at 79.31 per cent and Tanjung Bidara (N.02) at 76.60 per cent. The lowest were Sungai Udang (N.11) at 63.64 per cent, Kota Laksamana (N.20) at 62.74 per cent and Bandar Hilir (N.22) at 57.70 per cent.

The same three seats led and trailed in the commission’s hourly updates from 4pm. Tanjung Bidara is where Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ab Rauf Yusoh of Barisan Nasional (BN) faces Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) Mohd Yunazri Mustamiri in a straight fight.

Early voters, mainly security personnel and their spouses, recorded a turnout of 94.96 per cent, with 9,417 of 9,917 having voted, the dashboard showed.

The 15th Melaka state election, held on November 20, 2021, closed with a final turnout of 65.85 per cent, or 326,068 of 495,196 registered voters, including early and postal voters, the then SPR chairman, Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh, announced, Bernama reported. The two figures are not calculated on exactly the same basis. At the 15th general election on November 19, 2022, Melaka’s final turnout was 79.2 per cent, or 520,923 of 657,324 registered voters, according to official results compiled by ElectionData.MY.

Datuk Seri Ramlan Harun, the SPR chairman, said earlier on Saturday he was confident of a turnout of 70 to 75 per cent, Bernama reported. Polling took place at 240 polling centres, and 79 candidates are contesting the 28 state assembly seats. The commission has said the first result is expected by 9.30pm at the latest.

Credit : Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR)

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